[Marxism] How the revolutionary upheaval in America around George Floyd vindicates what is now called Intersectionality

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https://anthonybrainapplyingtrotskyismfortodayandtommorw.wordpress.com/2020/06/01/how-the-revolutionary-upheaval-in-america-around-george-floyd-vindicates-what-is-now-called-intersectionality-by-anthony-brain/

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[Marxism] Majority of Americans Support Uprisings, Disagree With Trump, Poll Finds

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https://truthout.org/articles/majority-of-americans-support-uprisings-disagree-with-trump-poll-finds/

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[Marxism] Fwd: H-Net Review [H-FedHist]: Hartmann on Han, 'Advising Nixon: The White House Memos of Patrick J. Buchanan'

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From: H-Net Staff via H-REVIEW 
Date: Wed, May 27, 2020 at 5:34 PM
Subject: H-Net Review [H-FedHist]: Hartmann on Han, 'Advising Nixon: The
White House Memos of Patrick J. Buchanan'
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Lori Cox Han.  Advising Nixon: The White House Memos of Patrick J.
Buchanan.  Lawrence  University Press of Kansas, 2019.  400 pp.
$39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7006-2829-2.

Reviewed by Susan M. Hartmann (The Ohio State University)
Published on H-FedHist (May, 2020)
Commissioned by Caryn E. Neumann

Born in 1938 and with degrees from Georgetown University and Columbia
University School of Journalism, Patrick Buchanan worked for the _St.
Louis Globe-Democrat _until 1966, when he joined Richard Nixon's
presidential campaign and followed him into the White House as a
speechwriter and political strategist until the president's
resignation in August 1974. In this volume, political scientist and
presidential scholar Lori Cox Han has collected 135 of the hundreds
of memos Buchanan wrote during his tenure. The memos provide valuable
insights into political strategists' work, the ways the press covered
the Nixon administration, and the views and actions of a variety of
conservatives.

Most importantly, the book examines Buchanan's contributions to the
reshaping of conservatism and the Republican Party. He recommended
that the president concentrate on wooing Catholics, ethnic groups,
and working-class voters and abjure any efforts to court African
Americans and Jews (though in the 1972 reelection campaign he
displayed flexibility in a memo outlining how Nixon could appeal to
Jewish voters). Buchanan urged Nixon to downplay economic issues and
focus on such inflammatory topics as abortion, pornography, aid to
parochial schools, crime, school busing, and attacks on the "the
establishment." He closely monitored conservatives, seeking to keep
them faithful as Nixon pursued what Buchanan felt were ill-advised
efforts, such as the family assistance plan, environmental reforms,
and the opening to China.

These memos also illuminate how political operatives did their jobs.
Buchanan meticulously reported on individual reporters and their
platforms, suggesting ways to feed supportive media and discredit
critics. He scrutinized the words and records of potential
challengers to Nixon's reelection and suggested how to upend them.
While there is no indication that Buchanan was connected to any of
the events surrounding Watergate, he recommended a variety of
measures to cripple a centrist Democratic candidate, including
offering millions of dollars from Nixon's media budget to sow
disunity among Democrats.

This book will appeal to readers interested in Nixon as a politician,
in the rise and remaking of conservatism, and in Buchanan himself,
who continues to be a voice of the right long after his tenure in the
White House. The more general reader would have benefited from more
substantial annotation, since there are many references to people or
events unfamiliar to non-Nixon specialists. Nor do readers have
access to the outcomes of these memos. Which ones were heeded and
which were not? In a plug for a more expansive position just after
the 1972 reelection, Buchanan himself complained about his distance
from decision-making. While several memos outline strategies to deal
with the Watergate crisis, the very last one was written in May 1974,
months before Nixon resigned. In that memo, Buchanan insisted that
the president must not resign, leaving the reader to wonder what the
political strategist was telling Nixon in July and the early days of
August.

Citation: Susan M. Hartmann. Review of Han, Lori Cox, _Advising
Nixon: The White House Memos of Patrick J. Buchanan_. H-FedHist,
H-Net Reviews. May, 2020.
URL: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55128

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons
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[Marxism] Defying the First Curfew in New York City Since 1943 | Left Voice

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https://www.leftvoice.org/defying-the-first-curfew-in-new-york-city-since-1943

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[Marxism] Minnesota files civil rights charge against Minneapolis Police Dept. - StarTribune.com

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https://www.startribune.com/minnesota-files-civil-rights-charge-against-minneapolis-police-dept/570958652/

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[Marxism] Vale Jack Mundy, labor leader extraordinaire

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This link is to an essay by John Tully, author of The Devil's Milk. It is a 
wonderfully insightful essay about the recently deceased Australian labor 
leader, Vale Jack Mundey. The union he came to lead, once dominated by 
gangsters and corrupt leaders, did some truly remarkable things. Tully argues 
that there were no other unions in the world quite like this one. Read it and 
see what a radically democratic union can achieve, and why such unions are so 
needed now.

https://mronline.org/2020/06/02/vale-jack-mundey-inspirational-australian-union/
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Re: [Marxism] George Floyd had 'violent criminal history': Minneapolis union chief

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Cops, especially white cops, are afraid of big black men and when they find
out on the scene that someone built like George Floyd has a rap sheet, they
shit themselves. Fear of a racist stereotype breeds violence and the badge
is the ok to act on it.
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Re: [Marxism] George Floyd had 'violent criminal history': Minneapolis union chief

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If Floyd had been "clean as a hound's tooth" to use Dwight Eisenhower's
term about what he wanted from Richard Nixon, they would have INVENTED
stuff 

And I LOVE IT that the cop-fascist calls the national demonstrations
against police murders terrorist organizations!

It really sickens me as someone brought up singing union songs along with
Pete Seeger records to see the disgusting behavior of "union leaders"of
cops  I hope there are plenty of good cops who reject that guy's
approach
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Re: [Marxism] Tommaso | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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His King of New York is one of the most obvious and effective left-cycle
gangster films ever; when I teach it, students are still shocked and
amazed. Can't wait to see this one.
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Re: [Marxism] Is the pandemic a rehearsal for our own cosmic mortality?

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On 6/2/20 12:48 PM, Michael Meeropol wrote:


In other words, the outsiders want NOTHING to do with us until we show 
whether we are going to get past the self-destructive barrier that 
destroys so many HILF based civilizations ---


Similar to the plot of "The Day the Earth Stood Still". Klaatu comes to 
earth to force us to stop developing nuclear weapons because it 
threatens peace in the galaxy. If they don't stand down, the earth will 
be destroyed.


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[Marxism] George Floyd had 'violent criminal history': Minneapolis union chief

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(A familiar refrain as if being an ex-con excuses someone's knee on his 
neck for over 8 minutes.)


“What is not being told is the violent criminal history of George Floyd. 
The media will not air this,” police union president Bob Kroll told his 
members in a letter posted Monday on Twitter.


Floyd had landed five years behind bars in 2009 for an assault and 
robbery two years earlier, and before that, had been convicted of 
charges ranging from theft with a firearm to drugs, the Daily Mail reported.


https://nypost.com/2020/06/02/george-floyd-had-violent-criminal-history-minneapolis-union-chief/

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[Marxism] Tommaso | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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Opening as virtual cinema on June 5th, “Tommaso” is the greatest film by 
an American director I have seen since “First Reformed” in 2017. Like 
Paul Schrader, the director of “First Reformed”, the 68-year old Abel 
Ferrara, who is 5 years younger than Schrader, is a relatively obscure 
filmmaker with a long and controversial past. Interviewer Vittorio Carli 
asked Ferrara if religion a big influence on your work. He replied, 
“Well I was brought up Roman Catholic and I’m sure it did.” Schrader 
also comes from a religious background—Calvinist—but was deeper into it 
than Ferrara. Even though both left religion behind long ago, they make 
films where religious questions come deeply into play.


full: https://louisproyect.org/2020/06/02/tommaso/

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Re: [Marxism] Is the pandemic a rehearsal for our own cosmic mortality?

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Another thought about why "they" have not attempted to contact us --

Imagine that all highly intelligent life forms (HILFs a la Ursula LeGuin)
have to go through the process of either destroying themselves through
nuclear war, pandemics, destruction of the local environment OR escaping
past that to a civilization that is sustainable.  Once they jump past that,
they can develop the scientific knowledge to escape the local system of
planets and explore the universe --- When they discover a "civilization"
that has not yet passed that point of self-destruction, they DON'T make
contact because they don't want those not yet "safe" civilizations to be
able to wreak their destructiveness on other HILFS in the universe ---

In other words, the outsiders want NOTHING to do with us until we show
whether we are going to get past the self-destructive barrier that destroys
so many HILF based civilizations ---

[this ain't my idea -- I actually got it from Noam Chomsky --- it's of
course a speculation!]
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[Marxism] Is the pandemic a rehearsal for our own cosmic mortality?

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NY Times, June 2, 2020, 2:30 a.m. ET
Going Viral, or Not, in the Milky Way
Is the pandemic a rehearsal for our own cosmic mortality?
By Dennis Overbye

Last weekend the American space program resumed one of its most 
cherished and iconic traditions: launching astronauts into space from 
its own soil and with its own rockets, after a decade of hitching rides 
to the International Space Station with the Russians.


The event was celebrated as the beginning of a new era in spaceflight, 
with talk of moon colonies, Mars voyages, space tourism, interplanetary 
capitalism and the cool new SpaceX spacesuits. “We are proving out a 
business model, a public-private partnership business model that 
ultimately will enable us to go to the moon, this time sustainably,” Jim 
Bridenstine, NASA’s administrator, said at a news conference on May 26.


But this triumphant talk shared the headlines with more disquieting news 
about our vulnerabilities back on Earth. In the week before the launch, 
the death toll from the coronavirus surpassed 100,000 in the United 
States, and the frustrations generated by the pandemic — abrupt and 
widespread unemployment, glaring social inequity — surely helped fuel 
the unrest that roiled many cities over the weekend.


It was hard not to see it as an ominous signal, reinforcing a message 
some thinkers say has been sent by the universe regarding our cosmic 
destiny as a species. In 1998, Robin Hanson, now an economics professor 
at George Mason University, posed a vexing question: If the universe is 
such a garden of possibility, as astrobiologists and cosmologists 
proclaim, why amid billions of worlds and after billions of years is 
there no evidence of anybody out there to greet us?


Where are the alien ham radio operators beaming scientific secrets or 
extraterrestrial poetry? Why no mysterious engineering projects out 
among the stars? Where’s our invitation from the Galactic Council? As 
the great physicist Enrico Fermi once asked, “Where is everybody?”


Maybe the Great Filter got them, Dr. Hanson proposed. The Great Filter 
is a civilization-scale event or circumstance that would prevent a 
species from colonizing space or ever meeting other species — perhaps of 
even continuing to exist.


The filter could be a chemical bottleneck that prevents the formation of 
RNA that jump-started evolution, or a geophysical roadblock to the 
production of oxygen, which enabled multicellular creatures. But the 
filter could also be nuclear war, or a world-destroying asteroid, or 
global warming, or a malevolent artificial intelligence gone amok. Or, 
even, a vicious pandemic.


“The fact that space near us seems dead now tells us that any given 
piece of dead matter faces an astronomically low chance of begetting 
such a future,” Dr. Hanson wrote. “There thus exists a great filter 
between death and expanding lasting life, and humanity faces the ominous 
question: How far along this filter are we?”


Martin Rees, a.k.a. Lord Rees of Ludlow, a cosmologist at Cambridge 
University and co-founder of the Center for the Study of Existential 
Risk, detailed some of the ways we might die in his book “Our Final 
Hour: A Scientist’s Warning: How Terror, Error, and Environmental 
Disaster Threaten Humankind’s Future In This Century — On Earth and 
Beyond.” When the coronavirus began to wreak havoc in China, I emailed 
Dr. Rees to ask if this was what the Great Filter might look like.


“These global pandemics present an intractable problem,” he wrote back. 
“Obviously, if we understand viruses better, we can develop vaccines.” 
But, he added, “The downside is that it entails also an increase in the 
spread of ‘dangerous knowledge’ that would enable mavericks to make 
viruses more virulent and transmissible than they naturally are.”


Part of the message of Professor Rees’s book, and others like it, is 
that we have grown too big and interconnected for our own good, too 
smart for our pants. As a result, we are pushing on the most ominous 
term in the famous Drake Equation, developed by the American astronomer 
Frank Drake, which is used to estimate the number of technological 
civilizations in the galaxy: the average lifetime of a technological 
society.


How long can a high-tech society survive? No matter how likely it may be 
for planets to form, for those planets to seed life, and for that life 
to be intelligent, if the resulting civilizations don’t last long 
enough, they will never overlap in time and space. Each civilization 
could bloom and then fade by itself, never knowing a neighbor. If that 
isn’t a recipe for cosmic loneliness, I don’t know what is.


There is a loophole 

[Marxism] I THINK TWO THINGS ARE GOING ON

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It seems like there are two SEPARATE but CONNECTED things going on.

First --- an incredibly spontaneous outpouring of grief, anger, and
solidarity--- that is represented by all the demonstrations, large and
small (there were 100 people including the Putnam County Sheriff
demonstrating in Carmel, NY --- [the pro-Trump section of Putnam County, by
the way] -- taking a knee in opposition to police violence --- with four
local clergy leading the demonstration)  I think these demonstrations
are so large because the kindling of pain and suffering has been building
up for so long -- AND -- some have been so cooped up for so long that this
became a GOOD REASON to go out (and even risk health -- just as it was for
Wisconsin voters in the primary weeks ago).

(and the multiracial nature of the demonstrations is hopeful.  I believe
the current generation of young people (30 and under) are so much more
comfortable with the multiracial nature of our society --- if you're white,
you probably have black or Latino or Asian relatives --- if you are black,
Laino or Asian, you probably have white relatives --- certainly there are
classmates and co-workers --- especially in large cities --- and lets not
forget the incredible representation by people of color in the helping
professions, health care, transit, first responders in the largest cities
--- check out Houston, for example--- or in the essential industries like
meat packing, grocery workersThis resonates even with more privileged
people --- the white folks demonstrating in Solidarity see the injustice
and judging from the complexions of the demonstrators are moved by their
outrage to join that;s a good sign --- a sign that Trump;s knee jerk
appeal to racism MAY not work)

Second as evidenced by what has happened many places after dark --- the
situation produced an opportunity to redistribute wealth (that's what
"looting" is of course, even though many individuals engaged in it might
not think of it that way!) 

[by the way, a third aspect of this is the specific targeting of police
vehicles --- if one accepts the argument that local police forces are
occupying armies in some neighborhoods, this is a way of reducing the
technological advantages the occupiers have  ]

NOW _-- the question is --- will the media (and Democratic politicians) be
able to sharply distinguish these two  OR< will right-wingers (Trump's
already trying to do it) be able to MERGE these two in the minds of enough
suburban whites to give Trump a "law and order" bump --- REMEMBER, in 1968,
if you add Nixon's and Wallace's votes together you get 55 percent of the
voting public wanted "law and order" --- which in those days was code for
keeping black people down (notwithstanding the report of the Kerner
Commission that everyone -- including Lyndon Johnson the man who
commissioned it --- ignored!).

In addition, Trump's use of the military to clear Lafayette Park of
peaceful protesters might be an attempt to TURN peaceful protesters into
actual rioters ---Don't think that will happen.   The WHite House written
justification for "expanding the perimeter" explicitly conflated the
demonstrators in Lafayette Park with the fire set in the Church where Trump
did his photo-op (did he really hold the Bible upside down??)

INTERMEDIATE THOUGHTS FOR A PROVISIONAL CONCLUSION --- the large
demonstrations hopefully will raise consciousness and "appeal" to real
leaders AND (meanwhile) the looting and rioting will "shock" enough people
in the establishment so that some set of reforms MIGHT actually be
attempted --- (here the proposals of CAMPAIGN ZERO [see
https://www.joincampaignzero.org/] resonate as when tried they have led to
reduced police violence!) --- Recall that the rebellions of the 1960s
produced some real changes -- particularly in terms of Black access to the
media to the corporate offices to public office --- there really was [some
--- much too little] progress.

INTERMEDIATE QUESTION(s) -- from a ruling class perspective will it produce
a larger black voter turnout than in 2016 (which I believe is the key to
beating Trump). --- from a working class perspective, will it produce
actual organizing
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[Marxism] Russia Today publishes KKK-style "advice" to "Minnesota negrs"

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RT editor-in-chief publishes KKK-style "advice" to "Minnesota negrs"

31-05-2020: This incredibly racist "advice" to "the negrs of Minnesota and
the U.S." comes from Margarita Simonyan, the editor-in-chief of Russia
Today (RT).

The 'advice', translated by Bellingcat, includes lines such as: "First of
all you need the police to beat the f*ck out of some delicate creatures,
not muscular criminal negroids, these are not to be pitied, not even by
those who crow about their rights"; "you need a stage where the negrs'
national dance, the twerk, is performed", and "Let the black bros make
amphetamine and meth in three shifts, in the name of the Revolution".

The re-post, expressing admiration for this racist drivel which cites
Hitler's favourite filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl as an expert on film-making,
is from Dmitry Steshin, a journalist known for his ultranationalist views.

From
https://www.facebook.com/RadioFreeSyria/posts/3001101696641684?__tn__=H-R

Original post:

https://twitter.com/bellingcat/status/1267119829733060609

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[Marxism] Protest as seen from Vancouver Island

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Vancouver Island man’s brother and cousin die amid protests in Chicago
https://www.vancourier.com/2.2065/vancouver-island-man-s-brother-and-cousin-die-amid-protests-in-chicago-1.24144968
 


Jelks recalls the day in Chicago he was walking to a friend’s house, his 
university registration papers under his arm, when police swarmed. They 
descended from alleyways and cars.


“The next thing you know police come out of nowhere with guns pointed at my 
face,” said Jelks “to yell at me to take my hands out of my pocket. I told them 
‘no, I’m not going to do such a thing, you come take them. I’m not gonna get 
shot.”
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Re: [Marxism] [pen-l] Does neo-feudalism define our current epoch? | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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I read your piece, Louis.   I agree that this conception of "neo-feudalism"
is very flawed (and I'm being generous).

I have come to be convinced by the SSA (social structures of accumulation)
approach -- we have had Capitalism since the enclosures destroyed the
commons in England (maybe there was something like Capitalism in the
Venetian City-States -- I won't go there!) ---

But there have been varieties of capitalism that had their own social
superstructure -- At base, it's the dispossessed wage worker who either
works for a capitalist (or a super-structural entity financed by the
capitalists --- the state, non-profits, foundations) or starves -- period,
the end.

THAT'S OKAY at first blush --- to get you to the dynamics of capital
accumulation.

BUT HOW IS THAT SYSTEM SUSTAINED?   How come the injustices of the system
(from the very beginning when it provoked the diggers in England through
the wildcat strikes at warehouses and packing plants today) do not lead to
the immediate expropriation of the expropriators as Marx hoped (and
predicted) in Vol. I of Capital?

That's where the various super-structures come in --- where some element of
what Jim O'Connor called LEGITIMIZATION comes in --- (I would add, combined
with REPRESSION)

Fascism is one of these super-structures  --- social democracy European
style is one of them --- Pale imitation of social democracy in the US
(1945-1981?? -78??) was one of them  --- so is neo-liberalism as practiced
here till now ---

I do think the Reagan-Bush-Clinton neo-liberal version of Capitalism
crashed and burned in 2008-2009 --- and Obama's efforts did not create
anything new that was sustainable  -- leading to Trump getting elected ---

Putin's Russia, Brazil's Bolisano [sp?], Turkey's Erdogan [sp?], Trump's
America --- are all groping towards a fascist TYPE control -- highly
repressive (makes anything done in the US since the 1919 steel strike and
the Palmer raids appear tame -- except for Southern racist terrorism in the
Civil Rights struggles) --- with almost NO COHERENT economic policy ---

That's what I think is going on --- and it's definitely capitalist but the
new SSA has not been born --

(MY favorite recent book on the subject is David Kotz's THE RISE AND FALL
OF NEOLIBERAL CAPITALISM --- I even reviewed it -- which is attached here
---)
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[Marxism] Thierry Deronne: “The revolt that is happening in the United States is the same one that founds the resistance of the Venezuelan people” « Algérie Résistance

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[Marxism] The Extinction Crisis Is Accelerating, New Study Finds | HuffPost

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[Marxism] Monroe rally that drew 700 started with a single tweet - News - recordonline.com - Middletown, NY

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Monroe, NY is about half-way between NYC and the village that I grew up 
in. It has a large orthodox Jewish population and little evidence of 
leftist support in the past. This suggests that something new is unfolding.


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